Classic Poem

Rejoice, mackerel, and whosoever is of the fish in the deep,
who may inhabit through the winter the frigid, chilling seas!
That good knight Salmasius in pity meditates
to enwrap your nudity;
and abounding in paper he is furnishing for you
paper garments exhibiting the arms
and name and honor of Claudius Salmasius,
so that through all the fish-market you may deport yourselves
the knight's followers, in cases right for papers and in little boxes,
most pleasing to men wiping their noses on their sleeve.